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Charles Dickens - The American Tour (4/5)

Feb 06, 2012, 04:01 PM

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We look at how in 1867 Charles Dickens embarked on an exhausting 19 week tour of America as one of the world's first 'celebrity authors'.

Free learning from The Open University: History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4387

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